[spectre]

Natalee was well acquainted with Joran and the fact that he was a boy from a well to do, influencial island family. She knew he was graduating from an exclusive island HS and had been accepted to a college in Florida on a Tennis scholarship. Joran was a popular teenager and ran with the in-crowd on the island. He wasn't exactly a stranger in that sense of the word. Nor was he a last minute pickup at a bar.

Wouldn't most any girl have been attracted to this guy, or been flattered by his attention? Aruba or no Aruba? IOW's do you think he passed the smell test, if you can get past blaming Natalee for her poor judgment, as it turned out to be.

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[over3Owithabrain]

You don't send a bunch of high-schoolers, particularly girls, off to a foreign island to live it up with little or no supervision. That is stupid, reckless, and in this case, probably deadly. Knowing a guy for a couple of days isn't the point.